Perhaps the best option is NOT to fight ISIS.
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.” – Thomas Jefferson
Foreign and military aid comprise only a small fraction of total GDP. Even so, there is an enormous COST of the entangling alliances that result.
If we did not send aid to Israel over the last 50 years, the Arabs would not hate us. If we did not make the world safe for Kingdoms by rescuing Kuwait from Sadam, support the Saudi regime, prop up the Egyptian regime, the Pakistani regime, etc, we would not need a ‘Department of Homeland Security’, there would have been no Gulf War I or Gulf War II or Afghanistan conflict. Why not let South Korea and Japan and Europe provide for their own defenses?
After all, oil is a commodity, and we aren’t as reliant on mideast oil as we were in the past. Of course, our leaders can’t even allow refineries to be built and took 7 years to decide to CANCEL to Keystone Pipeline — despite thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines across the US which have only minimal spills… So no vision there…
Also bear in mind, fighting radical Islam, has merely given it a bogeyman to blame: Israel and the West — instead of directing blame for poor economic performance in Arab countries, on the leaders and governance of said countries.
Isolationism is kind of like MGTOW on a nation-State scale. You keep your nukes for mutually assured destruction if invaded, and maintain a national DEFENSE that you don’t send out of your country, but pretty much keep under the radar, not p~~~ing other countries off.
Declining birth rates are caused primarily by access to birth control and increased wealth. People are more interested in pursuing their own interests than in having large families. Socialism contributes in a minor way — with less economic growth, wages are lower, and kids, relatively more expensive than in the past. The narcissistic, consumerist culture, also makes raising kids more expensive since they ‘must’ have designer clothes, expensive toys, etc that were not needed in the past. So blaming declining birth rates on ‘socialism’ to me, as this video does, is rather a simplification.
Unfortunately, conservatives often mis-represent facts, just like liberals. For instance, Canada is taking in women, children, FAMILIES, and homosexual refugees. The argument is the single males are a greater threat. That is non-sense to me, and individuals should be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Especially whether they’re self supporting or have someone to support them!
Sweden is not the ‘rape capital of the world’ due to Muslims — much of the ‘increase’ is due to a redefinition of rape. The prison population has a larger percentage of blacks than the general population; you can certainly not conclude that all blacks are criminals. I think you can conclude that many blacks, are raised in a culture of crime and government handouts.
Another approach to reduce terrorism is to have the public boycott mass media news agencies, wire services, etc that cover terrorism, and only support coverage at an academic level. In other words, radio silence — perhaps a strange concept in the West where we have freedom of expression. Whether domestic shooters, or foreign actors, and/or cover it a year or two after the fact and/or on the backpage. I don’t think it should be illegal to cover it — however, since the goal of ALL these people is attention, knowing that State and National newspapers and media WILL NOT COVER IT will reduce the impact of terrorism significantly. After all, Osama didn’t execute 9/11 to kill Americans, he executed it to draw America into a wider mideast war. And succeeded. This then created a power vacuum that has allowed radical islam to fluorish. Bear in mind, while the acts are horrendous, I am far more likely to die driving to work than I am in some mass shooting or terrorist attacks.
We can blame ‘intelligence’ all we want — Democrats blamed Bush for not heading warnings of 9/11 — unfortunately, there are thousands of people being tracked, they act in small cells, and it’s difficult to coordinate information and know what is real.
This report does at least characterize attacks such as Charlie Hebdo as a massacre. Unfortunately, they are also an affront to free speech. Our spineless political leaders do not DEFEND the right to OFFEND Muslims, Jews, Atheists, and Christians — which is the right of a free people. Best action you can take is to buy Charlie Hebdo. I bought the English edition and then bought a year of the French edition (electronic) that I can’t even read. Why? To support the brave individuals carrying on this satirical publication. I don’t agree with the leftist politics of Hebdo, but I am a strong supporter of freedom of the press to express their views. And their cartoons are fkn hilarious and politically incorrect. I do wish they’d offer English translations each week.
FrankOne 4 years, 2 months ago.
